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The post-midterm election presidential press conference ...
A rare opportunity to hear a president give raw, emotional, and unrehearsed answers -- especially when his party loses big.
Like 1994 — when not a single Republican incumbent loses any race for Governor, House, or Senate … and Democrats lose the majority in both chambers of Congress
Well, I think that I have some responsibility for it. I'm the President. I am the leader of the efforts that we have made in the last 2 years. And to whatever extent that we didn't do what the people wanted us to do or they were not aware of what we had done, I must certainly bear my share of responsibility, and I accept that.
That was Bill Clinton, the day after the 1994 mid-term election
With voting in 2026 now over, this week's episode of C-SPAN's podcast "Extreme Mortman" presents presidents going back to Ronald Reagan reacting to midterm elections.
Which president called the results a "thumping"?
Which president called it a "shellacking"?
What did President Donald Trump in 2018 say about Nancy Pelosi becoming House speaker again and Mitch McConnell expanding his Senate majority?
And which three presidents, soon after mid-term elections, made major announcements on immigration?
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